Alain de Botton Quotes

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

FoodI AmFriendsGoodnessWillSee

Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.

Joe Carnahan

WorldSayingFindWillOpen-Minded

As long as I'm working, I'm happy. You see my face - great. You don't see my face - too bad, I don't care. I'll keep going.

John DiMaggio

GreatKeep GoingHappyFaceCare

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

TruthFaceLovedSeenOnlyNeeds

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

John Lone

BeautyYouUpNotesShowJust

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

Robert Lowell

ColdBostonWhistle

We live in a kissy society.

Michael Bergin

LiveSociety

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

John Schneider

BusinessTimeLongLong TimeBeen

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Amber Heard

LifeSmileWomenAgeSweetYou

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

Steve Toltz

LightDayShortNeverMadeSome

If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.

Rutina Wesley

JobTrainingSchoolFeelLearnYou

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

Monica Seles

MeControlMotivationWorryI Can

What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

Douglas Brinkley

CuriousWorldFlyingWantTestNavy

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